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Agree - apart from choice of Duran Duran song. "Girls on Film" is my Duran Duran moment (that intro with the motor of an old Nikon or something running, a noise which will make no sense in 10 years time when everyone bar .01% of the photographers will be using digital cameras). Saw Hawkwind...

I thought they were an R&B/pub-rock band who put on a bit of aggro? But I did and do like 'em.

write short, clear headlines. blogs are often read through RSS-readers and then a headline like "Check out this cool link" or "Yesterday was interesting" are going to leave your potential readers baffled. Try something like "The giant whale-killing squid" or "Why Phil Collins is a genius" to...

Jayne (Wayne) County vs Antony&the Johnsons Hendrix vs the field early Japan vs elegant Japan (Gentlemen/Quiet Life) vs late Japan (Tin Drum) Roxy Music (w/Eno) vs 80s lounge Roxy Music Eno vs EMO Hawkwind vs Motorhead Coldplay vs Radiohead vs Pink Floyd Lady Sov vs MIA Duran Duran vs Spandau...

a good read that Pearsall (although a bit pessimistic?)

Gave up after Series 2. Thought it was decent (but not good enough for another 6 months of it). Anyone else enjoying House with Hugh Laurie? Episodes a bit samey, but at least it's possible to miss one (never thought I would enjoy a medical drama).

well he did after admitting lying on his CV. the real story here is not him lying on his CV - but why wasn't his background details more thoroughly checked in the first place? surely you would expect him to be carefully vetted before getting a job like this? why wasn't someone who could show...

couldn't help to notice the front page of the Mirror today (Kate Moss doing some coke, the Mirror manages to squeeze half a dozen pages out of the story). Nothing on their website but the Anorak (shouldn't that be a site for trainspotters) has some lines on it...

I use gvim for handediting html/css (on a PC). Mac version at http://macvim.org/. Might not be what you are looking for though. If you want to learn the basics about CSS then W3schools is a good place to start http://www.w3schools.com/css/

I've got the cutout from the Grauniad Sep 10 in front of me right now. It's just awesome. It looks like something out of Futurama. Picture is probably real, the book mentioned in the article is "Extreme Nature" by Mark Carwardine (out in October according to a quick google). The questions...

"avoiding new fads", well put.

Then there's Phil's work as a drummer, "John Martyn, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp (I quite like <cite>Exposure</cite>), John Cale and even Thin Lizzy; it’s quite a list (most from the tail end of the ’70s though). Plus Phil gave us that moment in <cite>Miami Vice</cite>." On the...

I said years ago that Coldplay is tosh, and I put Antony in the same category. He might be weird, he might be a trannie, he might be able to sing the vibrato(r) - but the music ain't no good. I hate that "feelie" operatic stuff ... (I have the same thing with Janis Joplin - just because someone...

funnily enough I have a half-written piece called "BBC Television is letting modern British rock music down" - idea came after watching the excellent "Sound of the Seventies" and thinking where would the future "Sound of the Noughties" come from in BBC's archives? The "Sound of the Seventies"...

Think the Eno/Cluster stuff was mentioned in The Times some months ago. The reviewer saying that the newly remastered CDs sounds almost as good as the original vinyl. Apparantly the first CD release of these (in the 80s?) were all mastered in a horrible way (happened a lot) and these newer ones...

Stina Nordenstam's version of "Sailing" (where the inner cover describes it as the "Rod Stewart song"; in fact Rod's version was a cover of Sutherland Brothers&Quiver's original (uha - I owned an album by them once)). The first time I heard this I laughed, I thought "she cannot be serious". Now...

There was a piece on this in The Sunday Times today basically saying that cycling in London IS bad for you (heart disease), even if wearing a mask: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1743309,00.html

I am no DJ - but I am quite happy with my Hercules DJ Console. http://europe.hercules.com/showpage.php?b=0&p=87&f=1 Around 130 quid from Dabs. I think I convinced to get Gutterbreakz to get one for his birthday - he might be able to say if it is suitable for use on the road.

Not even Siouxsie or Dead Can Dance? (I am re-learning genres after moving to the UK, didn't think these were goth until I bought the NME's "Goth" reprint, thought goth was Sisters of Mercy and that lot) And did anyone else see that thing on BBC4 on Friday (30 minutes of punk/postpunk bands...

This (m3u) is an audio stream from an MP3 file (or "internet radio"), not a podcast. A podcast is an audio file subscription that goes straight to your MP3-player without any hassle, manual downloads or streaming audio.